Having seen Gatordog's nice font display utility, I thought I could get some mileage out of it by designing a font-based logo designer in BaCon. It takes ttf fonts, displays them and lets you apply a number of striking 3D shadow and other effects, making it very easy to design logos for applications and websites.

The program depends on ImageMagick (it will not run without a recent version) and also uses mpg123 for sound http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=48021. Although mpg123 is not required, I highly recommend installing the mpg123 pet because several processing indications are given via audio feedback.

I have included a few images showing the Plogo interface and a few of the results.

I highly recommend you try PLogo out with some hollow or weird fonts. The results are amazing.

Have fun...

PS. The source is in the tarball.

UPDATED TO VERSION 0.1b (now a log is kept of saved images, so you can re-create earlier images. The log is in $HOME/plogo/log).

UPDATED TO VERSION 0.1c (increased total number of fonts handled to 2000; it was maxed at 600).

UPDATED TO VERSION 0.1d (can now handle 4000 fonts; new reflection effect added; source now included in the /usr/local/plogo/data dir; changed effect "Shade Right" to "Shade Left", since I can't usually tell the difference between right and left and I was wrong initially )

I have noticed that there are "funky" fonts that IM's convert (which is called repeatedly in Plogo) does not like. They are usually identifiable when you try to see a preview of the font and it looks dot-matrixy. Skip those fonts. I my case they are Helvetica, etc. But your problem may be related to the max fonts I define in an array to hold the font names. I will increase that and post a revised binary. You might have more than 600 fonts on your system - that is why it is showing only the first bunch.

With kind regards,
vovchik

PS. Here is the new bianry. Just unarchive it and copy it into /usr/local/plogo, overwriting the old version, and tell me please how many fonts it now displays.

To nominate a max number, I would suggest that 2000 should be enough for me.
I probably need to be a bit more selective in which fonts I have.
Above 2000 gets to be a bit time-wasting, altho if it makes no difference to the prog why not have 4000.
There must be those who need that many.

What I really need is something that sorts fonts into families, so I only have to browse the family I want to use.

What am I missing here?
I am running Puppy Lucid 520.
I downloaded and installed Image Magic.
I then installed the Plogo Pet.
I tried a few designs and first, Shade right was not in the selections.
Second, on clicking on the X to exit it, my dual core processor was showing about 50 percent on both cores.
Did I exit the application wrong?

Sorry about the right-shadow confusion, but I explained it in the UPDATE notes:

Quote:

UPDATED TO VERSION 0.1d (can now handle 4000 fonts; new reflection effect added; source now included in the /usr/local/plogo/data dir; changed effect "Shade Right" to "Shade Left", since I can't usually tell the difference between right and left and I was wrong initially Smile)

You may get a few seconds of high processor use when image magick is trying to convert a complex, decorative font (i.e. one with lots of vectors). You should let IM finish its job before exiting, otherwise the IM job might still be in memory. That is the reason why I put in the sound effects. In the next version, I will kill all IM jobs before exiting the prog.

You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forumYou cannot attach files in this forumYou can download files in this forum